“The Deceptive Silence of Stolen Voices” (January 2003) by Wole Soyinka has a plenitude of anecdotal evidence of electoral corruption, brutality and murder, handled by Soyinka in deliberately plain, baleful or excoriating prose: “[o]nly this Monday, the papers reported yet another act of murder [. . .] an aspiring Representative who was lured away by pretending supporters and bludgeoned to death. Women have not been spared, some have been shot”; or “[t]he constitutional right to two terms of office is not a mandatory sentence
onthe electorate” (emphasis added).
Dare Babarinsa's A House at War: The Story of Awo's Followers and the Collapse of the Second Republic (Spectrum Books, 2003) and Omo Omoruyi's testament about military government activities are starting points for
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Citation: McLuckie, Craig. "The Deceptive Silence of Stolen Voices". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 October 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12864, accessed 25 November 2024.]
